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From: Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: "Ellcey\, Steve" <sellcey@mips.com>,
	 "libc-alpha\@sourceware.org" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
		"libc-ports\@sourceware.org" <libc-ports@sourceware.org>,
	 Chung-Lin Tang	<cltang@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] MIPS16: MIPS16 support proper
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4l9s6ru.fsf@sandifor-thinkpad.stglab.manchester.uk.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1301250451540.4834@tp.orcam.me.uk> (Maciej	W. Rozycki's message of "Fri, 25 Jan 2013 05:13:53 +0000")

"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com> writes:
>> After some poking around I think the problem is not the glibc that I
>> built but with crti.o and crtn.o.  If I use
>> regular mips32 versions of these crt files and mips16 built versions
>> of everything else (main program, glibc,
>> libgcc, etc.) then I can run a simple hello world program, if I use
>> the mips16 versions of crti and crtn I get:
>> 
>> 
>> mips-mti-linux-gnu-gcc -mips32r2 -mips16
>> -Wl,--dynamic-linker=/local/home/sellcey/gcc/mips16/sysroot-mips-mti-linux-gnu/mips16/usr/lib/ld-2.17.90.so'
>> -Wl,-rpath=/local/home/sellcey/gcc/mips16/sysroot-mips-mti-linux-gnu/mips16/usr/lib:/local/home/sellcey/gcc/mips16/install-mips-mti-linux-gnu/mips-mti-linux-gnu/lib/mips16'
>> hi.c -o x
>> 
>> mips-mti-linux-gnu-qemu -r 2.6.38 ./x
>> hi
>> qemu: uncaught target signal 11 (Segmentation fault) - core dumped
>> 
>> Note that it did print 'hi' before getting the signal.
>> 
>> If I try adding '-static' then I get:
>> 
>> mips-mti-linux-gnu-gcc -static -mips32r2 -mips16 hi.c -o x
>> mips-mti-linux-gnu-qemu -r 2.6.38 ./x
>> qemu: uncaught target signal 4 (Illegal instruction) - core dumped
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I was wondering if you have any idea what could be causing this.
>> Should the standard qemu be able
>> to run mips16 executables with no changes?
>
>  I am fairly sure QEMU has issues with MIPS16 code, and I wouldn't be 
> surprised if user-mode emulation actually required porting QEMU, rather 
> than merely fixing bugs, to support MIPS16 binaries -- it may not be 
> prepared to handle the ISA bit at all.

Never tried user-mode emulation either, but FWIW...

>  Have you tried running your code on actual hardware?  This is how we did 
> testing of all these changes.

...QEMU 1.2 system emulation seems to handle MIPS16 pretty well,
so that might be another alternative.  See:

    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2013-01/msg02626.html
    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2013-01/msg02550.html

for some recent results.

Richard

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-25 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-23  4:41 [PATCH 0/2] MIPS16: MIPS16 support Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-01-23  4:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] MIPS16: Allocate GLIBC_2.18 Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-01-23  4:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] MIPS16: MIPS16 support proper Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-01-23 17:22   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-01-24 10:10     ` Chung-Lin Tang
2013-01-24 13:13       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-01-24 13:56         ` Richard Sandiford
2013-02-20 16:19     ` [PATCH v2] MIPS: MIPS16 support Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-02-20 16:29       ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27  1:38         ` [PATCH v3] " Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-02-27 17:50           ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27 23:54             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-01-24 18:08   ` [PATCH 2/2] MIPS16: MIPS16 support proper Ellcey, Steve
2013-01-25  5:14     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-01-25 13:59       ` Richard Sandiford [this message]
2013-01-28 22:18         ` Steve Ellcey
2013-01-25 22:10       ` Steve Ellcey
2013-01-26  0:32         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-01-28 17:36           ` Steve Ellcey
2013-01-28 17:56             ` Steve Ellcey
2013-01-28 21:08               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-01-28 18:58             ` Richard Henderson
2013-01-28 21:06               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-01-28 21:17                 ` Steve Ellcey
2013-01-29 16:24                   ` Richard Henderson
2013-01-29 19:27                     ` Joseph S. Myers

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